The purpose of this technique is to give people experience with a new tool or behavior before they are put into a real life situation. As an example, using NLP techniques a person is freed of a fear of public speaking. All that remains is to test it in real life. The last thing that we want to happen is to have a bad experience the first time out. This technique can be used to give experience, good, bad and indifferent so that the success of the initial treatment can be further tested. Here are the steps:

1). Elicit the person’s time line with respect to how they see their past and their immediate future.

2). Elicit the submodalities associated with the way they code intense memories.

3). Go back in time to a point where the client saw a very successful speech, replace the speaker with the client in the memory then enhance by increasing the submodalities that make the memory especially vivid.

4). Do the same as in step 3 only with a so-so speaker.

5). Do the same as in step 3 with a really bad speaker. In this case it will be helpful for the person to also review how it was handled through the very worst that happened.

6). The key is the “experience” they have now handled various performances and the potential reactions of him self and others to each type.

7). Future pace a great, so-so and poor speech event, making certain the client can handle any of them objectively and without causing a relapse into fearful behavior.

8). Go back to the past memories and reduce the intensity of the memory of the so-so and poor speech leaving only the experience.